HARTFORD – A state appeals court found a Litchfield Superior Court judge improperly blocked a news organization from copying trial exhibits used to convict Hiral Patel in the murder of a 23-year-old Sharon man. In a 2-1 decision released Monday,…

LITCHFIELD — Jury selection will begin Nov. 7 in the state’s case against Shyam Patel. The third Patel to be implicated in a botched robbery and home invasion in Sharon in 2012, Shyam is accused of playing a lesser role…

LITCHFIELD – Pat McGlin lashed out at his son’s killer on Friday in Litchfield Superior Court during an emotional two-hour hearing that sentenced Hiral Patel to 35 years in prison. Referring to Patel only by his prison inmate number, 399150,…

LITCHFIELD – Hiral Patel, who was free on $1.5 million bond after a jury found him guilty of murder and home invasion, was shackled Monday and sent to prison to await sentencing. “The state is correct,” Judge John A. Danaher…

LITCHFIELD – Convicted murderer Hiral Patel is free on $1.5 million bond, but the state wants him behind bars before his sentencing in late April. The bond is allowed by The Connecticut Practice Book, a rule book for judicial conduct….

LITCHFIELD – Free on $1.5 million bond after a jury conviction for murder and home invasion, Hiral Patel may find himself in shackles again next week without bond. A motion filed Monday by prosecuting Senior Assistant State’s Attorney Dawn M….

LITCHFIELD – Free on $1 million bond until last week, when a jury found him guilty of murder and home invasion, Hiral Patel was once again at liberty Monday after posting another $500,000 bond. Patel, whose cousin Niraj was sentenced…

&nbsp; LITCHFIELD – Twelve jurors began deliberating murder defendant Hiral Patel’s fate Tuesday in Litchfield Superior Court, including one man who said he was scared, uncomfortable and wanted to be excused. Still, when questioned separately by Judge John A. Danaher,…

&nbsp; LITCHFIELD – Alibi witness Salony Patel Majmudar testified under cross-examination Thursday that she waited until last summer to offer her story for various reasons, including a distrust of detectives, fear for her life and a preoccupation with nursing her…

&nbsp; LITCHFIELD – Salony Patel Majmudar said her younger brother, murder defendant Hiral Patel, was with her in Massachusetts on Aug. 6, 2012, and not fleeing a botched robbery at a Sharon home, where 23-year-old Luke Vitalis lay in a…